Burner for lamps



(NQ Model.) E. J. HALE.

BURNER EUR LAMPS.

No. 288,232'. y Patented Nov. 13s 1883.

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UNI'IEDi STATES ,PATENT NEIGE.

ELIAs .ioNEs HALE, on EoXoEoEr, MAINE.

BURNERFOR LAMPS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 288,232, dated November 13, 1883.

Application filed August 27, 1883. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom it may concern.-

-Be it known that I, ELIAS JoNEs HALE, of Foxcroi't, in the county of Piscataquis, of the State of Maine, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Burners for Lamps; and

,I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specication and Vrepresented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure lis a top view, Fig 2 a horizontal 1o section, and Fig. 3a vertical and transverse section, of a burner provided with my invention, the nature of which is deiined in the claims hereinafter presented.

This burner has two wicks, arranged' side by side, and also so that each shall lap on one or across the edge of the other, the tube for holding such wicks being provided with a partition, which, near each end, is bent at a right angle transversely of it, each bend being 2o in a direction opposite to that of the other.

This wick-tube also has a wick-elevator for eachof the wicks.

In the drawings, A denotes the body of the burner, having arranged in it, as represented,

the wick-tube B, which, as shown, is rectangular in horizontal section, and has in it the. partition C, that extends from side to side ef the said tube, and is bent at right angles, so that the part between the bends lis between 3c and parallel to the two sides of the tube. The

partition is at like distances edges of the said tube.

The two wicks D and E are shown as equal y in their widths, each being bent lnear one edge of it, so as to lap across the next contiguous edge of the other wick.

The wiclnelevators shown at F and G have their spur-wheels a. a to-enterthe tubethrough slots in its opposite sides.

ll/Vithin the body of the burner, and to encompass the wick-tube in manner as shown, is a serpentine air-director, H, it consisting of a thin strip of plate metal bent in a serpentine forni and also around in a circle, as

from the two represented. It is arranged with the air-inletsk b of the body of the burner in manner so that air, after passing into and through them, shall be received within the spaces between the coils of it, (the said director,) and by such be directed in separate streams upward regularly about therwicktube.' This device or airdireotor constitutes, however, no part of my present improvement, it being claimed by me in another application for a patent recently made and allowed.

My present improvement differs from those represented and described in recent applications numbered 98,367 and 101,057, and made by ine for patents, inasmuch as by it each of the two wicks laps on or across one edge of the other, and the wick tube or holder is provided with a partition, as described, to allow of such,

the partition, as represented, intervening 'be tween the wicks notonly where each laps on the other at its edge, but also between the said laps. I have found in practice that my present improvement enables heavier oils to be burned to advantage than can be with either of the arrangements of wicks shown in my said allowed applications for patents. I have also found other advantages resulting from it.

`I claiml. A lamp-burner provided with two fiat wicks, arranged side by si de or in parallelism, and each extended at one edge of it and lapped on or across the edge of the other, all being substantially as set forth.

2. A lamp-burner having its wiclr` tube provided with a partition, constructed and arranged in it, substantially as described, so asy to admit of two wicks being used in the said tube, with each lapped on or across one edge of the other, as set forth.

ELIAS JONES HALE.

lVitnesses:

. It. H. EDDY,

E. B. PRATT. 

